2014 - JUN - Zombie Files

Quote: "Early on Monday morning, residents spotted the 31-year-old unnamed man armed with a knife, naked and covered in blood. He was running down the main road in Erbach in the central German state of Hesse, police said."

Quote: "Police said they believed the blood had come from injuries he had inflicted on himself, but said they would investigate further."

Quote: "Although this time police were able to arrest the man without a struggle, the case is reminiscent of an incident a year earlier in June 2013. Then, police shot dead a naked man who had been cutting himself in the fountain on Berlin's Alexanderplatz with a large knife. When approached by police, the man reportedly lunged at an officer, who shot him in the chest. The disturbed man later died of his injuries."

Note: Both cases are very reminiscent of an event here in the United States, in Hollywood (California), near the coast, where a Wu-Tang Clan-associated rapper suddenly, out of nowhere, jumped up from a couch with friends, sliced off his own penis, then ran to the second-story balcony and dived off it, mentioned in the 2014-04-16 update...

Quote: "'He was completely nude,' Maker said. 'There was obviously some type of medical issue going on with him. He wasn’t communicating in any type of fashion with us.' More deputies arrived at the scene and determined that the man required medical treatment."

Quote: "The chaos started shortly after 8 p.m., when police responded to Goody's bar for a report of a naked man. When police approached, the man -- who police said was in his 20s -- ran away. He then jumped into a car and sped off, going down Wilson Boulevard the wrong way. He hit several parked cars as he drove. Then he jumped out of the car, and ran again -- but police caught him."

Quote: "Authorities said the man was also seen dancing on the bridge after starting the fire. He was injured from the blaze, officials said."

Quote: "He had a big smile on his face. He looked absolutely out of his mind."

Note: Eerily similar to an event where a man in his 20s burned his truck on the Ship Canal Bridge in coastal Seattle (Washington), mentioned in the 2014-06-16 update. In that event the man didn't dance, but instead he spray-painted a circle on the bridge, menaced cops with a knife, and got shot dead. So two different guys burning trucks on or near coastal bridges in just four days...

Quote: "Muni spokesman Paul Rose said the man got on the bus, took off most of his clothes and refused the bus operator's request to either get dressed or leave. Rose said the man was wearing only a sock on his private parts."

Note: Also see the car that burst into flame while parked in parking garage at a luxury high-rise in coastal San Francisco (California)...

Quote: "In a separate incident, police in Kitchener arrested a man walking around a neighbourhood with a hatchet."

Note: A guy swinging an axe set a vehicle on fire on Highway 16 in New Hazelton (Canada) too, mentioned in the 2014-05-11 update. I think we need a new term for the crazy axe- and hatchet-wielding people - Lizzie Borden Syndrome! I guess I'd put meat cleavers in the Lizzie Borden Syndrome category too, since they're a hacking type instrument more like a little axe than a knife. The last meat cleaver incident was when a naked man, 71, armed with a meat cleaver threatened a driver in Oklahoma City (Oklahoma), mentioned in the 2014-05-06 update. The scariest meat cleaver incident so far was when a man dragged his wife down Canal Street while hacking at her with a meat cleaver, in coastal Manhattan (New York), mentioned in the 2013-02-24 update...

Quote: "Officers ordered him to place his hands behind his back, but he refused. Dyachkin then grabbed his penis and began to masturbate in front of several residents in the area, the report said. Officers were forced to use a taser in order to subdue Dyachkin."

Quote: "'We were kind of falling asleep, because it was a 6 a.m. flight ... and then all of the sudden, this guy who was sleeping just woke up out of nowhere and started flipping out,' Mark Verity told ABC. 'The crazy thing is, he really didn't speak any English so we didn't know what he was talking about. It was crazy, I've never seen anything like that in my entire life.'"

Quote: "The motive isn’t clear, but for some reason a nursing home patient in suburban New Jersey wheeled his naked self into the room of a 92-year-old fellow resident and beat the man with a piece of his wheelchair."

Quote: "The man was last seen at Delores Wright Park, 400 E. Lisa Drive, on Wednesday. He allegedly parked his silver, two-door car by the baseball field at the park and got out wearing nothing but shoes. A witness who contacted the sheriff's office said the man was ducking in and out of shrubbery at the park."

Quote: "When officers tried to detain the man, he began to fight and assault them, according to Lt. John Lyle. He said it took five officers and several Taser deployments to subdue the man, who has been identified as Daniel Best, 34. After he was taken into custody, Best started showing signs of significant medical distress, according to Lyle. The Gilbert Fire Department transported him to a local hospital where he died Sunday morning."

Quote: "The pedestrian, who was wearing just a pair of tartan boxer shorts, wandered onto the M8 just before 7am yesterday forcing cars to come to a halt. A number of photographs posted on social media showed him climbing onto the bonnets of some vehicles and walking through lanes packed with traffic. Eyewitnesses said that the man, who appeared to be in his late 30s or early 40s, seemed distressed and was shouting at some of the vehicles' occupants. The bizarre incident happened as commuters made their way to work near to Harthill and Shotts."

Note: Yikes, a neuro-zombie just 2 miles from me. If only I'd known I could have gone and gotten some decent pics. And I can't say I'm surprised. Not near a coastline here, no, but right smack in the middle of the biggest river valley in North America. That stretch of I-44 runs right along Deer Creek. A young woman, 28, dropped dead in her home in March, 2000 feet from Deer Creek, mentioned in the 2014-03-07 update...